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<h2>Wages and Schooling </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1976
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  3010
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Schooling)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>smsa66</dt><dd><p>lived in smsa in 1966 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>smsa76</dt><dd><p>lived in smsa in 1976 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>nearc2</dt><dd><p>grew up near 2-yr college ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>nearc4</dt><dd><p>grew up near 4-yr college ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>nearc4a</dt><dd><p>grew up near 4-year public college ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>nearc4b</dt><dd><p>grew up near 4-year private college ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>ed76</dt><dd><p>education in 1976</p>
</dd>
<dt>ed66</dt><dd><p>education in 1966</p>
</dd>
<dt>age76</dt><dd><p>age in 1976</p>
</dd>
<dt>daded</dt><dd><p>dads education (imputed avg if missing)</p>
</dd>
<dt>nodaded</dt><dd><p>dads education imputed ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>momed</dt><dd><p>mothers education</p>
</dd>
<dt>nomomed</dt><dd><p>moms education imputed ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>momdad14</dt><dd><p>lived with mom and dad at age 14 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>sinmom14</dt><dd><p>single mom at age 14 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>step14</dt><dd><p>step parent at age 14 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>south66</dt><dd><p>lived in south in 1966 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>south76</dt><dd><p>lived in south in 1976 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>lwage76</dt><dd><p>log wage in 1976 (outliers trimmed)</p>
</dd>
<dt>famed</dt><dd><p> mom-dad education class (1-9)</p>
</dd>
<dt>black</dt><dd><p>black ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>wage76</dt><dd><p>wage in 1976 (raw, cents per hour)</p>
</dd>
<dt>enroll76</dt><dd><p> enrolled in 1976 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>kww</dt><dd><p>the kww score</p>
</dd>
<dt>iqscore</dt><dd><p> a normed IQ score</p>
</dd>
<dt>mar76</dt><dd><p>married in 1976 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>libcrd14</dt><dd><p>library card in home at age 14 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>exp76</dt><dd><p>experience in 1976</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM) .
</p>
<p>Card, D. (1995) <EM>Using geographical variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling</EM> <EM>in</EM>  Christofides, L.N.,  E.K.   Grant and  R.  Swidinsky (1995) <EM>Aspects of labour market behaviour : essays in honour of John Vanderkamp</EM>, University of Toronto Press, Toronto .
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Verbeek, Marno (2004) <EM>A guide to modern econometrics</EM>, John Wiley and Sons, <a href="http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME">http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME</a>, chapter 5.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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